Means for attaching buckles to belts or girdles.



Nb. 869,721. PATENATEDV-OGT. 29. 1907.

' F. B. MONTGOMERY.

MEANS FOR ATTAUHING BUGKLES 0 BELTS OR GIRDLES.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 25. 1906.

FIG--1- Flcsk VE'NTOR:

. WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCES B. MONTGOMERE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

MEANS FOR ATTAGHING- BUCKLES TO BELTS OR GIRDLES.

Z fpplication filed July To all whom it may concern.

lie it known that I, FRANCES B. MONTGOMERY, a bitizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Attaching Buckles to Belts or Girdles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for attaching buckles to belts or girdles, and consists in the apparatus hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide a cheap and effective means whereby a single buckle may be transferred with little trouble from one belt or girdle to another without the necessity of separately sewing the parts of the buckle to each belt or girdle.

I Figure l is an elevation of an apparatus embodying this invention; Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of the parts thereof; and Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 1 1 represent the ends of a belt or girdle of suitable material, such as thin leather. Of course, fabric of any kind may be used in place of the leather. 2, 3 are the two parts of a buckle, each part Specification of Letters Patent.

25,1906. Serial No. 327,742.

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

like portion 13 out of the body of the metal. The end 14 of the sh eetof metalopposite to that containing the slot 9 is preferably pointed to form a tongue. The operation of the device is as follows: Having attached a pair of the buckle holders 8 to the ends of the belt 1, the said ends of the belt are placed in position so that the tongue 14 passes under and around the staple 5, Fig. 4, through the slot 9, and is bent back again, and is inserted under the loop 13, and then is bent backward again over the top of said loop. It will be found that this device will hold the staple 5 firmly.

Each belt or girdle l to which the user may desire to transfer the buckle carries a pair of the buckle holders the same device;

having its loop or staple 4, 5, and there being a suitable hook 6 and staple buckle together.

I The present invention relates to means for obviating this difficulty, and is accomplished by employing a sheet 8 of thin flexible metal, such as copper. At one end of said sheet is a slot 9, through which stitches 10 may pass in order to sew the said sheet of metal to the belt or girdle. In the said sheet of metal 8 are also two 7 for attaching the two parts of the slits 11 and 12, Fig. 3, between which is formed a loop 8, and inasmuch as the metal of which said buckle holders are made is flexible, the buckle holders may be attached to and detached from buckles many times.

What I claim is:

I 1. A buckle holder for belts or girdles consisting of a plate of flexible metal having parallel slots therein, and means whereby the plate may be sewed to a belt or girdle, in combination with a buckle having a loop through which the said plate may be passed and then is folded through the said slots to hold the buckle to the belt.

2. A buckle holder for belts or girdles consisting of a plate of flexible metal having three parallel slots therein, and means whereby the plate may be sewed to a belt or girdle, in combination with a buckle having a loop through which the said plate may be passed and then is bent backward on itself and the end curved through the slot most remote from the bend and back and around the loop formed by the other two slots.

FRANCES B. MONTGOMERY.

Witnesses 0. N. MAnsOLAIs, CHARLES,E. SHEPARD. 

